Steering and tuning of on-chip optical beams

Author

Fuwan Gan ; Wei Li ; Junjie Du ; Hao Li ; Aimin Wu ; Zheng Shen ; Xi Wang ; Shichang Zou

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Functional Mater. for Inf., Shanghai Inst. of Microsyst. & Inf. Technol., Shanghai, China

fYear

2014

fDate

16-23 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We report on-chip structures based on ordered dielectric nano-particle chain which can be used to steer and tune optical beams. With different elaborately designed structures, the optical beam can transmit in a negative direction, or totally reflected beyond the normal incidence with a subwavelength nanorod chain. The mechanism of the phenomenon is believed to be due to the symmetry of resonant modes in the dielectric nanoparticles. With the low-loss feature and the ultra-compact characteristic, this structure may find applications in photonic circuits.

Keywords

beam steering; integrated optics; nanoparticles; nanophotonics; optical design techniques; optical losses; optical resonators; optical tuning; low-loss feature; on-chip optical beams; optical beam steering; optical beam tuning; ordered dielectric nanoparticle chain; photonic circuits; resonant modes; subwavelength nanorod chain; subwavelength resonators; total reflection; ultra-compact characteristic; Arrays; Optical beams; Optical diffraction; Optical reflection; Optical resonators; Optical scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929387

Filename

6929387